mtweidmann

No worries, it was a couple of page of results back. Helps when you know thats its there some where. :D

A couple of windows managers include sound daemons, KDE and Enlightment included. This is fine if your apps take advantage of this, for instance Xmms & Xine both include arts drivers for when you run them in KDE. As far as I know GNOME doesn't have its own sound daemon, and neither do IceWM or Sawfish. So just about any app should work under these. But if you setup an app (eg Xmms) to use the arts driver, then try to use it outside of KDE it won't work! I've found the best solution is to run as many things apps using the arts drivers. Arts only kicks in when you use an app that requires it. So if you haven't used any sound app for a while non-arts apps should still work.

Take a look at this post, should answer your question. :) http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...light=urpmi+cds

I can think of two potential causes: First, did you keep your user settings when you re-installed? (ir your /home directory) It could well be that the games stored whch card to use in the config files they create for each user. In which case they would ry to use a sound card that affecttively isn't there. To check this try creating an entirely new user, and see if you get the same problem. Second, the sound card has already been grabbed by another app/user. This can sometimes happen when running a non-arts app in KDE. Try logging into a different windows manager (eg icewm) and see if it still happens.

A lot of the internal readers are just the standard external USB devices re-packaged. So virtually all of them should work nicely with Linux. :) I read recently read about a 3.5" drive that had a floopy drive and card reader in it, so it saved space. Saddly can't find the link anymore. :(

Remember that unless you specify other wise /var and /root are counted under /, both of which can take up quite a bit of room.

Just done a quick search myself, here is what I came up with: What appears to by a rpm of the driver: http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/download.php?lang=en List of modems the above driver supports: http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/modems.php?lang=en And the instructions for it: http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/doc.php?lang=en (Thank you danielnevans at Linux Knowledge Base)

I've never setup an ADSL USB modem under Linux, but I guess it will be similiar to the normaly USB modems. First try and find out what chipset your modem uses. D-Link in all likely hood just bought a refrence design off someone else, and it is the name of the refrence design you need. For instance my sound card is an ABit AU10, but it uses the FM801 chip, so I use the FM801 driver. Hopefully this will be listed in the install wizard, if not its a matter of tracking down a driver on the web. Hope this helps! Martin

Sounds good! I'd be interested in getting one, but I'd like to hear from somebody who has one first. I wonder if any reviews will turn up soon.

Our SNF machine last year hit 110 days before we had a power cut. :-(

Looks great!

I haven't played it too much, I'm wokring on a Java project at the mo. (I hate Jave, much prefer C++) But spent 10mins on it ealier, worth downloading.

I agree that the most obvious solution would be the audio cables not being plugged in. Also worth checking is the volume levels and mutes. MDK for some strange reason mutes all the channels on my machine when I install it. When you say the Xmms tip doesn't work, what exactly do you mean? The standard Xmms CD plugin won't work without the CD audio cables. You can download a digital play-back plugin, that doesn't need/use the audio cable. This method works alot better on my machine but takes longer to setup.

You shouldn't have to change anything in Xine. Xine just has to know where your DVD drive is, so it knows where/how to access it. It uses /dev/dvd & /dev/rdvd if I remember correctly. Mandrake automatically creates these when you install it, you may have to play around with them when you replace the drive.

Grrr really shoudln't have downloaded it, got far too much work to do. But worth it ;-)

Ir I remember rightly, Encylopedia Britannica is basically html with a cutermised web-browser. But its a long time since I used it, so it might have changed. If all else fails there is always Wine.

A lot of USB modems are so called Win-modems. These are modems have the bare minimum of hardware, and rely on software drivers to work. Support for these in Linux is getting gradually better. But you'll have to find out what chiset your modem uses, then look for a driver.

From memory (I'm uni at the mo) theres a folder containing Konqueror stuff in: /home/<user>/.kde/share/apps (or some where close to it)

Sounds like a good idea, but means I'm going have to buy some CD labels. :(

Have you tried using a USB mouse? And have you tried using your old mouse on a different PC?

Basically, the distro part of the business was doing fairly well, but they don't have enough hard cash.

They should be on the install CDs.

Does your camera have removable memory cards? If so the usual advice is to buy a USB card reader. These are straight forword to set up and avoid all the problems of getting the camera to work. If you really want to get the camera to work, then check out gphoto2. http://www.gphoto.com/ There are several very good graphical front ends fo it. If your camera is supported, it should manage to auto-detect it.

The standard ATI drivers should work fine. But I think ATI have also realsed some "proper" drivers for their 9000 series. Worth checking out.

I've got a Hauppauge and my house mate has a Pinnacle card. I'd get the Pinnacle. Enough said.